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Themes: Race & Ethnicity

Navigating Mixed Families
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From race to income to religion and more - via WNYC
Tri-Racial American
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Being Mixed in Today's America via Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Brooklyn Abolitionists
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The New York Times' review of Brooklyn Historical Society's new exhibition
Hidden No More
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Historian Renee Romano writes about the importance of the CBBG oral history collections
One Drop - Many Views
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Shifting the Lens on Race - via NYTimes.com LENS
Passing for White and Straight
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How my looks hide my identity via Salon.com
PHOTOS: 3rd Annual What Are You?
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A discussion about mixed heritage
Richard Cohen & the Gag Reflex
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Washington Post political opinion writer's remarks on NYC Mayor-elect Bill De Blasio's family
We're All Mixed Up
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A Tumblr for mixed people of color challenging the monoracial lens
Chinese Cubans: Transnational History
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A new book by Kathleen López
Coming Out as Biracial
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Stephanie Georgopulos on her mixed experience, via Medium
Suzanne Lacy's Stoop Talk: Gender, Labor, and Gentrification
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Report back from Between the Door and the Street
Come Out Swinging: The Changing World of Boxing
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Join Lucia Trimbur to discuss her new book and Gleason's Gym, New York's oldest boxing institution.
Reading Series: Quantifying Bloodlines
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Join others interested in discussing family history, DNA, and the myth of purity.
What's Biology Got to Do with It? The Social Life of Genetics
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Part 1 in our reading series: Quantifying Bloodlines
Between the Door and the Street
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A public performance about gender politics, labor, and women's rights in Brooklyn; initiated by Suzanne Lacy with Creative Time and Brooklyn Museum
"The tormented half-breed in film..."
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INTERVIEWER JEN CHAU:            I want to talk a little bit about your thoughts about mixed-heritage identity now [2012]. 

The Changing Face of America
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Essay and portrait photography via National Geographic
The Racial Dot Map
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The most comprehensive map of racial distribution in the United States.
What's Purity Got to Do with It? Searching Family History & Genealogy
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Part 2 on our readings series Quantifying Bloodlines

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